Music Player && Downloader App

This is a Full-stack music player🎵 and music downloader📲 app made using React Native⚛️(for the front end) and Flask🐍(for the backend).

Demo:

Description (The how and why):

I use Spotify to stream all the music I enjoy listening to, while I am programming, however with all the load shedding happening in South Africa most of the time I am unable to stream the songs that I want to listen to, I'm also not prepaired to pay for Spotify Premium, so being a developer I decided to just make my own music app where I could download the songs for offline use, so I did some reasearch and found pytube. I was then reading through pytubes documentation and noticed that you could download the audio stream of a given video in a ".mp4" format, which sparked an idea💡, I could create an audio downloader by replacing the ".mp4" format extension with ".mp3" before pytube creates the ".mp4" file, which resulted in pytube creating a ".mp3" file instead, and voilà I had a music downloader, I then went down a deep rabbit🐇 whole and eventually decided that React Native⚛️ would be the best choice for making the UI for this music app, as it is quite easy for a begginer pick up and React is use widely by many developers and reputable companies, so I then made a To-Do list app📝 to learn the fundementals of React Native⚛️, to make this Music app🎵. I then needed a simple server to run python code with pytube and handle some requests, to search, download and send the songs from the server to the music app, So I decided to use Flask as Flask is a simple micro web framework, that allowed me to code up a backend server in minutes. After all of that I had developed a Full-stack music app that I could use on my phone, I do not recommend any one to copy my code and use this app, as this is just a personal project I made to gain experience, making mobile apps using React Native⚛️ along with Javascript, and to demonstrate my determination, skill and potential as a programmer and developer.

Features:

• ▶️Play and ⏸️Pause songs

• Skip to the ⏭️next song and Skip ⏮️back to the previous song

• 💽Create playlists

• ➕Add songs to playlists

• 🗑️Remove songs from playlist

• ▶️Play songs from specific playlist

• 📲Download searched songs

• 🗑️Delete songs

• 🔍Search bar:

  • Search for a specific song
  • Search for a list of songs from a specific artist or band

• SeekBar:

  • Play the song at different time stamps
  • Seeing how long the audio has left untill it is finnished

• Automatically ▶️plays the next song when the song finnishes

• On Startup:

  • Gets all audios on the device
  • Automatically filters all the audios for audios that are only songs🎶

• Mini music controller for playing songs and navigating through the app at the same time